“The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else, and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit.”

“The average income of blacks here is far higher than the average income of all the people in the Soviet Union. The official government definition of the poverty line in the U. S. is higher than the average income in the Soviet Union; it’s higher than the income received by 90 percent of the people on the world’s surface. Now, that doesn’t mean blacks aren’t subject to injustice; of course they are.”

“How is it that the average CEO in Japan receives an annual income of $300,000 while the average CEO in the United States earns $2.8 million?”

“While Babe Ruth's $80,000 in 1930 was eighty times the average U. S. income, Don Mattingly's $3.4 million in 1991 was 160 times the average.”

“Since 1965 […. ] the richest fifth of the world's population increased its average income by 75 percent. For the poorest fifth of the world's population, the increase has been faster still, with average incomes more than doubling during the same period.”

“If it makes sense to transfer income from rich to poor people within a generation, why shouldn't we transfer income from rich to poor generations?”

“The European Commission uses an explicit relative poverty line of 60 per cent of national average income.”

“I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.”

“'Is that really the best you can say? An average-looking boy? An awful lot of boys are average-looking, S. Q.!' And poor S. Q., he just kept arguing that 'this boy was especially average-looking.' " ~ Kate Wetherall, The Mysterious Benedict Society”

“Mind-masses, once formed, are imperishable, their combinations are indissoluble; only the relative strength of these combinations is altered by the incoming of new mind masses.”